Seriously out of control. Romney's trip was a triumph -- make sure you check out my piece on Romney's brilliant tour de force in tomorrow's American Thinker. Have you ever, and I mean ever, seen media behave this way with the subversive in the White House?

Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement on the corpse men?? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement on the 57 states? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement onNeda Soltani? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement on Lara Logan? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about Qaddafi's brutal anal rape and murder? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement on the record unemployment? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about your illegal transactions wih Rezko? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about your releasing your transcripts? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about releasing your medical records? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement on the auschwitz borders, calling on Israel to retreat to indefensible borders? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about being caught off mic betraying the American people to Putin? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about those "Polish" death camps? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about the "Austrian" language?Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about the unprecedented number of golf games you played while the American economic indicators continue to plummet and Americans suffered?Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about the unprecedented number of casualties in Afghanistan under your "leadership"? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about your "peace" partners the Taliban? Do you sanction their jihad, their poisoning of girl's schools, their child marriages, honor killings? Mr. President! Mr. President! Do you have a statement about the relgious minorities you have left to slaughter in your "Islamic Spring"? Mr. President! Mr. President! What do you consider to be the capital of Israel?

Feel free to add in the comments section. The enemedia is at war against the American people.

When I exposed the silence of the big right and their absence of coverage on jihad, I did not mean to imply that there were no blogs covering jihad, sharia, and Islam. That never entered my mind. Nor did I mean to give smaller counter jihad blogs short shrift.

The small counter jihad blogs are doing the heavy lifting and they deserve praise.

I do not want to leave anyone out who has been supportive and fought jihad. If this describes your work, please leave your blog and URL in the comment section. Many of you I know, others I would like to know.

Historically America has been the global force for freedom. This has been our role in the world. It is only now, under Obama, that America has become a retrograde enforcer of everything we have stood against in our history: oppression, subjugation, and discrimination.

The full face veil is not religious. Even Muhmmad said that the woman's body should be covered, not the face and hands. So it's a political statement. A supremacist, racist sharia political statement. That is what America is getting behind. Stunning.

“The US is mixing up religious freedom with freedom of conscience,” he told FRANCE 24 on Tuesday. “In France we respect religion, but we also respect atheism. Believers and non-believers must have equal treatment under the law.”

Commenting on the report, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that more than a billion people worldwide lived “under governments that systematically repress religious freedom.”

“When it comes to this human right -- this key feature of stable, secure and peaceful societies -- the world is sliding backwards,” she said.

In Europe there was "growing xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim sentiment, and intolerance toward people considered 'the other’," according to the report, which also complained of a "rising number of European countries, including Belgium and France, whose laws restricting dress adversely affected Muslims and others."

France bans the niqab

A guide to the four main types of Muslim veil

France enacted its controversial law tha outlaws the wearing of “burka” or “niqab”-type full-face veils in public in April 2011 (Belgium passed its own law in July 2011) under then-President Nicolas Sarkozy, a move that led to accusations that the president was pandering to far-right voters.

Sarkozy was defeated by Socialist opponent François Hollande in May 2012 -- although France’s new president said he had no intention of overturning the ban.

One French commentator, Socialist-supporting philosopher Henri Pena-Ruiz, said Hollande’s reluctance to change the law demonstrated that it had cross-party support while reflecting France’s longstanding attitude to religion.

“The US is mixing up religious freedom with freedom of conscience,” he told FRANCE 24 on Tuesday. “In France we respect religion, but we also respect atheism. Believers and non-believers must have equal treatment under the law.”

“And what freedom is this report defending exactly?” he asked. “When France banned Islamic head coverings in schools [in 2004], many girls said that they didn’t want to wear them and that if head scarves were not forbidden, their brothers and fathers would force them to cover up."

“Clinton needs to think more about the emancipation of women. It is not as straightforward an issue as the State Department portrays.”

A long history of secularism

France legislated for a total separation of church and state in 1905, a move that had its ideological roots in the country’s 1789 revolution.

This law, coupled with France’s prior experience of powerful [Catholic] church interests in government, goes a long way to explaining the country’s hard stance on religious symbols, according to Christopher Dickey, head of Newsweek magazine’s Paris bureau.

He said it also demonstrates the different attitude from the perspective of the US, a country that had never experienced the “domination of an all-powerful religious institution [like the Catholic Church in France] at the heart of government.”

But Dickey rejected the idea that the ban on wearing niqab and burka-type headwear was anything other than “a hostile act” by a president desperate to hold on to power.

“This report was researched at a time when Nicolas Sarkozy was transparently pandering to the far right and effectively legitimising xenophobia,” he told FRANCE 24. “It was recognised as such by the French who voted him out.”

A 'false and divisive issue'

Dickey pointed out that the ban only affects some 2,000 of up to three million Muslim women in France: “When you make an issue about such a tiny minority you are making a statement about your attitude to Islam.”

As for Hollande’s unwillingness to scrap the controversial law, this was much more because it was a “false and divisive” issue.

“Hollande and his Socialist government certainly don’t want to spend political capital trying to overturn it at a time when there are far more serious concerns,” he said.

A huge mazel tov for the fierce five! The U.S. women's team has won the gold medal in the gymnastics team final with a superlative performance and an overall score of 183.596. Fierce! Fantastic! And free!

My favorite tweet: "You don't go up against Hava Nagila and win."

In this multiple exposure photo, U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman performs on the balance beam during the Artistic Gymnastics women's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas performs on the balance beam during the Artistic Gymnastics women's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

U.S. gymnast Jordyn Wieber, second left, lifts up the hand of teammate Alexandra Raisman, as they celebrate along with McKayla Maroney and Kyla Ross after being declared winners of the gold medal during the Artistic Gymnastic women's team final at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Kevin Carroll of the EDL is running for police commissioner. Wonderful news. The media doesn't think so. The Telegraph runs in the sub-headline of this news story that Carroll has a criminal record. What they don't tell you is that the British police arrest these blokes just for breathing. Tommy Robinson is hauled down to the police station as a matter of course because they want the EDL to stop doing what they are doing -- standing for freedom. What was Carroll's offense? A "public order offence," of course, after he and another man protested Muslims who were screaming baby killer and murderer at a soldiers’ homecoming parade.

Get it? But that's the headline at the Telegraph. Transparent? Awful. The media always describes EDL freedom demos as "marches and street protests that have regularly descended into violence." What the media neglects to tell you is that it is always the leftists (anifa) and the islamic supremacists attacking EDL and police that are responsible for the violence. This is the morally inverted media under which we suffer.

Kevin Carroll will be joining me in Stockholm for our first global counter-jihad advance. The world's leading freedom fighters are converging in Stockholm for our Freedom March and the "First Worldwide Counter-Jihad Action, Stockholm, August 4th." The conference heralds the launch of a worldwide counter-jihad alliance. Freedom fighters from Europe and America, as well as India, Israel, and other areas threatened by jihad, will at last be working together and forming a common defense of freedom and human rights.

Stockholm was chosen for the Global Counter Jihad rally because of the actions of an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, who travelled to central Stockholm on December 11, 2010 in order to commit mass murder in revenge for Sweden's "silence" over cartoons of Islam's founder and the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan. Al-Abdaly succeeded only in killing himself, but his jihad plot is particularly noteworthy because he turned to jihad violence and hatred in England, at the Luton Islamic Centre.

Join us is Stockholm.

English Defence League leader to stand as police commissioner The Telegraph

A leader of the controversial English Defence League is to stand for election as a police commissioner, despite having a criminal record.

The EDL clashes with police - now it wants a key role in law and order. Photo: PA

Kevin Carroll, who is also a senior figure in the nationalist British Freedom Party, will run in the anti-Islamic group’s stronghold of Bedfordshire.

He is promising to end political correctness in policing and what he believes is a “two-tier” system that treats Muslims better than the rest of society.

If Mr Carroll won the election later this year, in addition to a £70,000 salary he would be given the power to set law and order priorities and budgets in the multicultural county as well as hiring and firing Bedfordshire Police chief constables.

Senior officers have already warned that public apathy about the new role of Police and Crime Commissioner could let extremist candidates into power by the back door.

Groups such as the EDL – which claims only to oppose extremist Muslims but whose members have been linked to football hooligans and the far-right – will work hard to get their supporters to vote while much of the electorate is expected to stay away from the polls taking place in 41 police areas across England and Wales.

Olly Martins, Labour’s PCC candidate in Bedfordshire, said: “The EDL thugs are about the least appropriate people to run for police commissioner.”

Mr Carroll, who lives in the EDL’s heartland of Luton, has a conviction for a public order offence after he and another man hurled abuse at Muslims who were protesting at a soldiers’ homecoming parade.

But although Mr Carroll received a nine-month conditional discharge in 2010 and was ordered to pay £175 costs, this will not prevent him from standing as a Police and Crime Commissioner because it was not an imprisonable offence.

By contrast Simon Weston, the Falklands war hero who had intended to run for the newly created post, would have been barred because of a teenage conviction for being a passenger in a stolen car, for which he could have been jailed.

So far the EDL has raised a fifth of the £5,000 deposit needed to put its “co-leader” up as a candidate for the election on November 15th.

A spokesman for the group, whose marches and street protests have regularly descended into violence, said: “Our only intention is to show our support for the police.”

He said it was “more than likely” that the EDL would put up other candidates elsewhere but claimed their chances of winning were “not that high”.

Date time of this report:Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:15pm Thailand timeTuesday, July 31, 2012 9:15am New York timeDate time of bombing:Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:14pm Thailand timeTuesday, July 31, 2012 8:14am New York time

The Muslim terrorist attacks continued today with two bombs exploding in Pattani at the C.S. Hotel. At this point it is unknown if there are any casualties. Aside from the normal confusion after a bombing attack, the news media is being hampered by a total power blackout in the city that happened at about the same time as the bombs went off. It is unknown if the power failure is related to the hotel bombs or if there was a separate attack on the power grid.

The same hotel was bombed on March 16, 2008 when 2 were killed and 14 injured.

BANGKOK, July 31 (Bernama) -- Two bombs rocked Pattani Tuesday night including a hotel which was bombed for the second time within four years.

A Pattani police spokesman said a car bomb exploded behind the CS Hotel at 7.15pm (Malaysian time: 8.15pm) causing the hotel to catch fire right up to the seventh floor.

All guests were immediately evacuated from the hotel and only one person sustained minor injury. Initial police investigations showed that a 10-kg homemade bomb was hidden in the car which was parked near the hotel's kitchen.

"I could feel the impact of the bomb as my house is situated just about 100 metres from the hotel," said a local journalist who declined to be identified. The second bomb exploded at the Paknam area, a few minutes after the first bomb was detonated.

The eight-storey CS Hotel was first bombed in 2008 which resulted in three deaths and 10 injuries.

UPDATE: Hotel and power station bombed in Thailand after alert issued for Muslim woman driving car bomb

Special to Atlas Shrugs by Chai

Photo: Remains of a pickup truck bomb detonated at a Pattani luxury hotel by Muslim terrorists (courtesy of the ThaiRath news )

The Jihad war in Thailand continued today with the detonation of two bombs targeting a major luxury hotel and a power station in Pattani. Although the story is still breaking, initial indications are that at least three persons were injured in one blast.

At about Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:14pm Thailand time (Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:14am New York time) Muslim terrorists detonated a pickup truck bomb at the rear of the C.S. Pattani Hotel in Pattani city in Thailand's restive South. At about the same time another bomb exploded at a city power station, plunging a large section of the city into darkness.

Earlier in the day the Police Chief for the region issued an alert for a car driven by a Muslim woman. Police stated that the car contained a bomb intended to be detonated in Pattani, and was being driven by a "woman dressed in Muslim clothing so the car would more easily pass through security checkpoints."

Once again and as frequently happens world wide, Muslim terrorists used a Muslim female and Muslim female clothing to circumvent security personnel. The terrorists know that security and police personnel can be hesitant to closely examine persons wearing Muslim female clothing.

The bombings at the hotel and power station are the latest in a series of Muslim terrorist attacks that ramped up in Thailand for June and July, and continue into the 'holy' month of Ramadan.

In Thailand during the month of June, 2012 there were 80 incidents in which 46 people were killed by Muslim terrorists - 15 government employees and 31 civilians. In addition, one terrorist was killed.

JULY 13: Homemade bombs planted at four ATM units in Yala's Bannang Sata district and an M79 grenade attack on a security outpost wound one civilian and one policeman.

JULY 19: A bomb explodes at a shop in downtown Pattani, but nobody is hurt. A bomb in Yala's Than To district kills a villagers and wounds another. A bomb is found after an ambush on villagers is carried out to draw security officials in Narathiwat's Si Sakhon district

JULY 20: 'Holy' month of Ramadan begins.

JULY 20: On the first day of Ramadan, a 50kilogram bomb hits a military vehicle on patrol in Narathiwat's Rangae district and wounds seven military rangers. A car bomb goes off in downtown Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat, burning down four shophouses and wounding eight people

JULY 25: A bomb hidden inside a parked pickup truck goes off in Yala's Raman district and hits a vehicle carrying policemen escorting teachers. Five of the occupants are killed and one wounded.

JULY 28: 20 Muslim terrorists attack a six man army motorcycle patrol. Four soldiers were shot to death and two were wounded. Video of the entire attack and gruesome killings was recorded by a hidden government CCTV installation, and is now freely circulating on the internet.

JULY 28: Two Buddhists are gunned down in Pattani while riding their motorcycles home from work on Saturday night.

JULY 29: Muslim man is shot to death early Sunday morning. A local Thai language news report stated that he was the assistant village head in Pattani's Thung Yang Daeng district and had been criticized by the Muslim insurgents for not being radical.

JULY 31: At least two bombs exploded in Pattani. The first truck bomb detonated at the C.S. Pattani Hotel. Early reports indicate that three persons were injured. The second bomb exploded at a power installation and plunged the city into darkness.

News from the Bangkok Post (Issued just prior to the bombing, contains alert about Muslim woman driving car-bomb.)

PM Yingluck orders a special operations centre be set up to coordinate and oversee efforts to bring peace to the far South, as police on security point duty are warned a bomb-laden car is on its way to Yala municipality.

Deputy Prime Minister Yutthasak Sasiprapa said on Tuesday that Ms Yingluck wants a central operation to specifically tackle the situation in the far South.

Gen Yutthasak, who is in charge of security affairs, said Ms Yingluck issued the instruction at today's meeting of security agencies. The meeting was attended by Gen Yutthasak, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung, deputy army chief Daopong Rattanasuban and National Security Council chief Wichean Potephosree.

He said the centre would be a permanent agency which would integrate the operations of all agencies involved in the solving the problem to ensure better efficiency and harmony.

This was not a change of policy, just an adjustment of the work procedures, Gen Yutthasak added. He admitted that present intelligence operations were not effective, judging from the escalating level of violence lately in the three southernmost border provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.

The insurgents had stepped up their operations, employing new guerrilla tactics. There were two groups of militants whose leaders were fighting each other in terms of combat capability, he said Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm said he felt heavy-hearted to have been assigned to help oversee the situation in the far South, but would try to do his best.

Mr Chalerm said he would call a meeting of senior police officers in the South to hear their opinions. He insisted that it was not necessary for the prime minister to go to the South, as doing so would only be an added burden on local authorities.

Jurin Laksanavisit, a Democrat Party MP and chief of the opposition whips, said the opposition would file an urgent motion with the House of Representatives seeking debate on the situation in the South.

Mr Jurin said the situation was becoming worse every day. In the month of June alone, there were 80 incidents in which 47 people were killed - 15 government employees, 31 civilians and only one militant.

Despite the seriousness of the situation, the prime minister had never visited the troubled areas to get first-hand information, he said.

Meanwhile, police manning security checkpoints on roads entering Yala provincial township have been ordered to watch out for a black Toyota Vios car which may have been fitted with a bomb.

The order was issued by Pol Maj-Gen Peera Boonliang, the Yala police chief, acting on a tip-off.

He said the driver would be a woman dressed in Muslim clothing so the car would more easily pass through security checkpoints.

It was believed a bomb had been placed in the car, and that militants planned to explode it at a spot inside the municipality, or in a nearby area, with petrol stations in particular likely to be targetted, he said.

The Delhi Police have concluded that the suspects involved in the February 13 bomb attack on an Israeli diplomat in India's capital were members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the nation's military. Their investigation report states that the IRGC members had discussed the plan with Indian journalist Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi in January 2011, who has been in touch with these people for almost ten years. Delhi Police have sought more details about the five IRGC members, including Houshang Afshar Irani, Sedaghatzadeh Masoud, Syed Ali Mahdiansadr, Mohammad Reza Abolghasemi, and Ali Akbar Norouzishayan. Masoud is the operational head and it was he who planned the attacks in Georgia, Bangkok and Delhi. Police have also come across the role of an Iranian woman, Leila Rohani, in the New Delhi attack as well as the attacks in Bangkok and Georgia. (Times of India)

This week is critical in the counter-jihad advance, as the world's leading freedom fighters are converging in Stockholm for our Freedom March and the "First Worldwide Counter-Jihad Action, Stockholm, August 4th." The conference heralds the launch of a worldwide counter-jihad alliance. Freedom fighters from Europe and America, as well as India, Israel, and other areas threatened by jihad, will at last be working together and forming a common defense of freedom and human rights.

Stockholm was chosen for the Global Counter Jihad rally because of the actions of an Iraqi-born Swedish citizen, Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, who travelled to central Stockholm on December 11, 2010 in order to commit mass murder in revenge for Sweden's "silence" over cartoons of Islam's founder and the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan. Al-Abdaly succeeded only in killing himself, but his jihad plot is particularly noteworthy because he turned to jihad violence and hatred in England, at the Luton Islamic Centre.

I was warned by numerous freedom-loving Swedes who wrote me, "The event will be labeled as a manifestation of xenophobia and intolerance, which here in Sweden usually provokes a response from a mixed consort of people belonging to the 'autonomous left' (particularly Antifa and similiar groups) as well as youths from the large and growing muslim minority."

And the media. Propagandist activists.

I received a request from a journalist, Eigil Söderin, editor of ETC, www.etc.se, for an interview regarding our freedom coalition. I am running the interview unedited because it vividly illustrates the difference between my real aims and the box the mainstream media wants to put me in.

Eigil Söderin: What are you hoping will be the outcome of the gathering i [sic] Stockholm?

Pamela Geller: An international freedom alliance.

Eigil Söderin: Why are this meeting being held in Stockholm?

Pamela Geller: For the ease of the European groups attending, and to commemorate the jihad attack that was thwarted there a year ago.

Eigil Söderin: In your view, what sort of organisations poses the greatest threath [sic] to the western world?

Pamela Geller: Those that wish to deny freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and equality of rights of women and non-Muslims in our societies.

Eigil Söderin: What is the main goals for the counter-jihad movement?

Pamela Geller: To defend the freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and equality of rights of women and non-Muslims.

Eigil Söderin: What are you planning to do with the large muslim population in Europe, many of whom have been living here for generations?

Pamela Geller: Ask them to obey Western laws and principles of human rights and reject the elements of Sharia that are supremacist, authoritarian, and deny many of those rights.

Eigil Söderin: Do you want them deported?

Pamela Geller: No.

Eigil Söderin: You have been called islamophobic, what is your response to that critique?

Pamela Geller: "Islamophobia" is a word invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to intimidate people into thinking there is something wrong with defending against Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism.

Eigil Söderin: Your blog and Jihad watch [sic] were a great inspiration for Anders Behring Breivik (Spencer name appears mor than 50 times in the manifesto, Breiviks mnetions you blog in the manifesto). Do you support the ideas of Breivik?

Pamela Geller: Neither Spencer or I inspired Breivik any more than did Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Charles Darwin, John Locke and others he mentions in his manifesto. His manifesto is ideologically incoherent and very far from my ideas; he calls for alliance with Hamas and said at his trial that he was inspired by al-Qaeda. We did not inspire him and do not support his ideas.

This is the media's attempt to smear and destroy those fighting for the preservation of our freedoms.

Eigil Söderin: Do you defend his actions?

Pamela Geller: No. I condemn his actions. His inspirations for these actions were Al Qaeda and Hamas. I have never called for violence but for legal defense of principles of freedom.

Eigil Söderin: On your blog you write about the massacre on Utöya, Norway, 22 july 2011. The blog post have been critizised. I found the following quotes written by you:

”Utoya Island is a Communist/Socialist campground, and they clearly had a pro-Islamic agenda.””Glen Beck was not far off when he compared it to the Hitlerjugend or Young Pioneers. ”“Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.”

What do you mean by these words?

Pamela Geller: I did not write that. Those are not my words. Look again. And that last sentence is not even in my blog post.

Eigil Söderin: Why do you make the point that some of the victims were not ”pure Norwegian”?

Pamela Geller: I did not make that point. It is not in my blog post. It was redacted from the excerpt.

What I said was "The slaughter was horrific. What these kids were being taught and instructed to do was a different kind of grotesque. There is no justification for Breivik's actions whatsoever. There is also no justification for Norway's antisemitism and demonization of Israel."

Eigil Söderin: Does it make the killings more justifiable in your view?

Pay attention to the daily media coverage of the presidential race. It is important. In the information battle-space, this is the big show, and the media is going for the gold medal in disinformation, smear reporting and fallacious framing. They need this win in order to complete their malevolent mission.

If you have been following the coverage, you could not help but notice the relentless attacks on Romney. Every article is an overt or covert slam. And the battle is only beginning.

Today's the enemedia Romney word of the day is "racist" (even though Islam is not a race). Romney spoke of the "dramatically stark differences in economic vitality" between Israel and the Palestinian territories. "Cultural differences" are at least part of the reason. That is a fact.

According to the enemedia, it's OK to target, oppress, incite hatred and slaughter Jews (it's a religious mandate, it's in the quran), but speaking of such a culture or pointing it out is "racism." And so that's today's talking point, "racism, racism racism." Sprinkle that with some Sheldon Adelson and you've got yourself an anti-semitic slam dunk.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. The army of dissemblers, disinformationists are wielding their pens like swords. It is not enough for the right to wring their hands and lament the injustice. That is so last deacde. We must expedite the takedown of their influence and their power. Each one of you are your own media organizations. Send out email blasts with articles from the blogs you trust most. Expose the liars.

CNSNews.com: In what marks a decisive difference in the presidential campaign, one day after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called Jerusalem the capital of Israel, the White House asserted that Romney’s position was different from that of the Obama administration.

“Our view is that that is a different position than this administration holds. It’s the view of this administration that the capital should be determined in final status negotiations between parties,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Monday.

“I would remind you that that is the position that has been held by previous administrations both Democratic and Republican. So, if Mr. Romney disagrees with that position, he is also disagreeing with positions taken by previous presidents like Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan,” Earnest added.

On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney struggled during the afternoon press briefing to answer what the capital of Israel was, insisting reporters already knew the administration’s policy and that the policy was not changed. Hours later he issued a written answer, stating it will be negotiated between Israel and Palestine.

It looks as if Romney was alone. The enemedia doesn't want you to see the joyous crowds that thronged around Romney at the kotel and all over Jerusalem. The media is now in a frenzy, jumping on Romney for violating the blasphemy laws under the Sharia regarding his honest and accurate remarks about a culture that is driven by hate, driven by violence, and driven by war. His remarks were actually very soft, but the media's knives are out. To find these photos, you have to dig, but they're there, and they're telling. No crowds like these ever met Obama in Jerusalem:

Can you imagine Barack Obama standing and waving in front of an Israeli flag?

The media coverage of Romney has been merciless. Every news story is an attack. Every news story is twisted. Every news story is falsely framed. Like this, for example:

There are good and decent people. Gd bless the Italians. Shame on the IOC -- they are a disgrace. This Olympics will be remembered as a sacrifice to jihad.

Italian Olympic Team Commemorates Munich Massacre

About 30 Italians, including Minister of Sport, stand in silence at the entrance to Israeli team's quarters. By Gil Ronen, INN (thanks to several Atlas readers)

The Italian Olympic team at the London Olympic Games made a noble gesture Sunday and stood in silence outside the quarters of the Israeli team, in memory of the 11 athletes slain in the Munich Olympics 40 years ago, Voice of Israel radio reported Sunday.

About 30 Italians were present at the ceremony, including Italy's Minister of Sport, the heads of the Italian Olympic Committee and athletes. Israeli Olympic Committee head Tzvi Varshaviak and Olympic delegation leader Efraim Zinger also took part.

According to an unverified report on the internet, the pilot and crew of a British airliner headed for Israel Thursday did what the Olympics Committee refused to do, and observed a moment of silence in memory of the Israel athletes murdered in Munich in 1972.

The "USA Stands with Israel" Facebook page, with over 10,000 subscribers, reported that the heartwarming gesture was made by a pilot for EasyJet, on a flight headed from the firm's home base of Luton, England, to Tel Aviv.

"The pilot came on the intercom and informed the passengers that the crew will be observing a minute of silence as they fly over Munich and he invited the passengers to join them in remembering the Israeli sportsmen who were murdered there at the Olympic Games 40 years ago," according to the report.

Despite the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) refusal to hold a minute of silence to commemorate the 11 Israeli athletes who were tortured and murdered 40 years ago at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich,NBC sportscaster Bob Costas led his own, improvised, tribute as the 2012 Israeli athletes walked into Olympic Stadium Friday.

"For many, tonight with the world watching, is the true time and place to remember those who were lost and how and why they died," he said. Following his comments, Costas went silent for five-seconds before the show cut to a commercial break.

A short ceremony was also held at Israel’s embassy in London on Friday, followed by a global minute of silence.

Teaching about the Shoah (the holocaust) in India is a problem because of the large Muslim population in India. And Islamic Jew-hatred is holy -- it's in the quran.

Algemeiner: He observes that “Most of the Indians do not even know about the Jews, let alone the Holocaust. Among the section of the Indian population that is aware of the Holocaust, there are many who have fallen into the trap of the Holocaust deniers and have started either doubting it as a whole or just its scale.” As part of this misinformation, many Indians believe that the Axis powers of World War II were partially responsible for India’s independence from the British in 1947. It is believed that Hitler’s battle with the Allies forced Britain to focus their resources in Europe. Britain was unable to control a territory as large as India, leaving room for an Indian independence movement. Subhas Chandra Rose, a key figure of the Indian independence movement, collaborated with Axis powers to raise an army to fight the British.

Another reason is the younger generation’s great desire for strong leadership. Dr. Aafreedi thinks they do not have good examples.

Dr. Aafreedi believes that the key to combating this situation is the dissemination of facts. “I promote Jewish Studies in India, the study of Jewish history, culture and religion. It is just not possible to understand the two most widely practiced religions, Christianity and Islam, without a study of Judaism, oldest of the three Semitic monotheistic religions. It is important for any nation to appreciate and recognize the contributions made to it by its religious minorities. If this does not happen, the society becomes intolerant towards minorities which has grave consequences not just for the minorities but also for the majority community. In India, Jews happen to be the smallest religious minority and the Muslims, the biggest. As a result of their small numbers, most of the Indians know them only through secondary sources, which are mostly unreliable, and not as a result of any direct contact with them. Ignorance gives birth to stereotypes and misconceptions, and hatred thrives on falsehood. Hence, it becomes very important to promote Jewish Studies in India. If this is not done, we would neglect one-sixth of the mankind.”

Hitler’s Mein Kampf is available in almost all Indian languages, but the only book on the Holocaust in India’s national language, Hindi, is an FAQ about the Holocaust published by Yad Vashem. Dr. Aafreedi has worked and continues to work in spreading accurate information about Judaism and the Holocaust in India. He has organized cross-cultural and international student dialogues at the University of Lucknow. There he also invited Jewish authors and filmmakers to speak about their works and brought a number of Muslim intellectuals to speak out against anti-Semitism. “I believe that if awareness is created through the spread of information,” he says, “it can help in eliminating many misconceptions that people have.”

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However, he has met resistance in his work. “Since I started working as an Assistant Professor, I have designed a number of courses with Jewish themes embedded in them in a camouflaged manner, as I failed to get approval for my proposed courses focused on Jewish themes and on the Shoah. It is hard to get approval for such courses in Indian academia as the administration fears that it might lose the goodwill of its political masters if any action of theirs has a detrimental effect on their political masters’ Muslim votes.” Muslims in India do not know that Arabs enjoy equality and high standards of living in Israel, and believe that the mosques on Temple Mount are closed to Muslims because of Israeli control. Because of such misinformation, Indian political parties do not make efforts to support Israel likely because of fear that the large Muslim population will turn against them...

CHICAGO -- A Chicago man accused plotting a suicide bombing overseas and claiming he was inspired by a radical Muslim cleric has pleaded guilty.

The plea Monday from 28-year-old Shaker Masri ends one of the last terrorism trials pending in the Chicago federal court. A plea deal was announced July 12, when Masri's attorney said the agreement was favorable to his client, though he declined to elaborate. Masri's sentencing is Oct. 16.

Masri was arrested in 2010 after the FBI exposed his alleged plot to attend a Somalia training camp to become a suicide bomber for terrorist groups al-Qaida and al-Shabab.

Masri was charged with attempting to provide material support to a violent extremist group and trying to offer material support by use of a weapon of mass destruction outside the U.S.

If it were anyone other than a Muslim supremacist Jew-hater, people would be going to jail. Hamas-CAIR would be demanding jail time under hate crime laws if it had been a Muslim in the pool.

Why wasn't this plastered all over the newspapers and cable news networks two years ago? Why have we just heard about it? Why? If these were Muslims, it would still be on the frontpages. We were would have been publicly caned. Seriously, imagine the fallout, but Jews don't even rate an column inch. That's the sharia infused into the culture.

If such a story were the other way around, or involved any other minority, every state-run news agency in America would be squawking in indignation. But as it involves Muslims being Muslims, America isn’t likely to hear much of anything about it.

The event happened 2 years ago, but is only now going to trial.

The Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.

(jewishpress.com) – An upscale hotel on a Santa Monica, California, beach is an odd place to be singled out from a crowd and removed because you are Jewish, but that’s what happened to 18 young professionals who are telling their story to a jury in a discrimination trial taking place in Santa Monica Superior Court this week.

Ari Ryan is the grandson of a Ukranian Jew who lost most of his family in the Holocaust and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Nazis. Ryan’s grandfather moved to Israel in 1942 and served as a captain in the Israel Defense Forces.

Seventy years later Ryan says he got a small taste of what his grandfather lived through, but rather than in the forests of the Ukraine, it took place at an upscale hotel in Santa Monica. Ryan and more than a dozen others have brought a lawsuit alleging anti-Semitic discrimination against them by a multi-millionaire Muslim American hotel owner.

Two years ago Ryan and other twenty-and thirty-something Jews planned to raise money to send children of fallen IDF soldiers to camp with a charity event at the Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California.

On the morning of July 11, 2010, Ryan and others arrived at the hotel and began setting up Friends of the IDF banners, literature and piles of shirts for the event guests.

But the event was aborted after, according to one employee’s sworn testimony, the hotel’s owner told staff members, “Get the [expletive deleted] Jews out of my pool.” Then the hotel security and other employees began removing the materials and ordering the guests to leave.

Ryan said, “Anyone wearing a blue wristband,” which identified them as being with the Friends of the IDF, “was asked to get out of the swimming pool and the hot tub.” In fact, no one who was identifiable as Jewish was so much as “allowed to dip their feet in the water.”

Tehmina (Tamie) Adaya, a Pakistani-American Muslim, is the owner of the Shangri-La. Her father, Ahmad Adaya, was a founding partner of the California real estate company IDS Real Estate Group. He also was a founder and benefactor of the New Horizon School for Muslim religious education in Southern California.

The father bought the Shangri-La Hotel in the 1980‘s and the daughter took it over in 2004, investing $30 million to renovate the property into a design award-winning opulent destination. In addition to the hotel, Adaya runs an upscale artist collective called the Crown Jewels which she blogs about at her site “Culture Shock to Culture Architect.”

In the cross-complaint she initially filed, Adaya claimed Ryan and his friends were trespassing on the Shangri-La property and became unruly.

“Not so,” said James Turken, managing partner of the California office of the DC-based law firm Dickstein, Shapiro, attorney for the plaintiffs. He explained that Adaya withdrew her complaint after he interviewed her, under oath, and she was unable to substantiate any of the allegations she had made.

Turken told The Jewish Press that witnesses will testify that, in addition to cursing the Jews and yelling at her staff to remove them from the pool, Adaya was heard saying, “my family will disown me,” and that her “investors will be furious,” if the plaintiffs remained on site.

The defense claims there was no discrimination and that, instead, the promoters of the event had failed to properly schedule the event with the hotel, and therefore they were trespassing.

According to Turken, however, all the necessary arrangements had been made in advance, as evidenced by the initial assistance provided by the Shangri-La employees, which included putting up a rope and stanchions and a check-in table. What’s more, he said, the day before the event “the head of hotel security gave a briefing to the staff to prepare them for the crowd of 150 that were expected to attend.”

The removal from the pool of Jews who were wearing Jewish-identified wristbands evokes a similar selection process of seventy years ago. Ryan, recalling his grandfather’s legacy, said “I felt the weight of standing up to what he had to live through.”

The plaintiffs are seeking $ 1 million from Adaya and the Shangri-La Hotel for emotional distress, attorneys’ fees and other statutory damages.

A group of 150 youths -- some as young as 13 and carrying swords and golf clubs -- raided the De Most bar late Saturday, smashing bottles of alcoholic drinks and damaging the property, said Hermawan, chief detective for South Jakarta police.

"Of the 62 arrested most are minors, and some...were armed with Samurai swords, sickles and golf clubs," said Hermawan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.

"They shattered the windows and door and smashed bottles, saying they wanted all bars shut to ensure the month of Ramadan is not tainted," he added.

Twenty-three people face charges of damaging property while four are additionally charged with carrying sharp weapons.

The group called itself the Prophet's Defenders Council, Hermawan said.

"It is usual for me and my followers to raid sinful places during Ramadan," the group's alleged leader, 33-year-old Habib Bahar was quoted as saying by the Kompas.com news website after the arrests.

"They committed sins there. They get drunk so action must be taken," said Bahar, who was also arrested.

In previous years Islamic groups have raided places serving alcohol, but Saturday's attack was the first this year since the fasting month of Ramadan officially began on July 21.

Authorities have ordered bars and nightclubs to close during the holy month, but the ban is not strictly enforced.

Ninety percent of Indonesia's population of 240 million identify themselves as Muslim but the vast majority practise a moderate form of Islam.

The funny thing is, Obama is championing this as his heroic moment, his singular act of bravery and courage. It was bad enough that he was taking credit for intel from Bush policy that he relentlessly derided, but worse that he took credit for the supreme bravery of others.

At the urging of Valerie Jarrett, President Barack Obama canceled the operation to kill Osama bin Laden on three separate occasions before finally approving the May 2, 2011 Navy SEAL mission, according to an explosive new book scheduled for release August 21. The Daily Caller has seen a portion of the chapter in which the stunning revelation appears.